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16th TRIENNIAL EACLALS CONFERENCE

Performing the Urban. Embodiments, Inventories, Rhythms

University of Oviedo

April 3-7, 2017

CONFERENCE CONVENERS

Isabel Carrera Suárez

Emilia María Durán Almarza

LOCAL COMMITTEE

Esther Álvarez López

Carmen Alfonso García

Luz Mar González Arias

Christina Jurcic

Carla Rodríguez González

EXTENDED COMMITTEE

Ana María Cristea

Miasol Eguíbar Holgado

Andrea Fernández García

Sandra García Corte

Alba González Sanz

Zuzel López Báquez

Raluca Mariana Pinzari

Paola Prieto López

Eva Pelayo Sañudo

Andrea Rodríguez Álvarez

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PROGRAMME OVERVIEW

Monday April 3

11:00-11:30

Conference Opening

Location Paraninfo. Historical Building

Plenary Session 1

11:30-12:30

IEN ANG

Claiming Chinatown: Asian Australians, Public Art and the Making of Urban Culture


12:30-13:30

JAVIER BAULUZ


13:30 Wine Reception

Location Cloister. Historical Building

Parallel Sessions 1

16:00-

17:30

Urban and Rural Limits

Urban Performances

Caribbean Alter/Urban

Spaces

Urban Visual Narratives 1

Writing Indian City

Spaces

Ballyn, Renes, Ribas

Anastasijevic, Pinzari, Toth

Fratczak, Grau, McDougall

Aláez, Fernández Campa,

Paravisini

Álvarez, Bayer, Gámez

Location SYDNEY ROOM

(Classics) LONDON ROOM

(History) KINGSTON

ROOM (English)

SINGAPORE ROOM

(Geography)

MUMBAI ROOM (Spanish)

Parallel Sessions 2

18:00-19:30

Canadian Urban Fiction

Postcolonial European Cities

Resisting the Urban 1

Perspectives on Displacement

Abdel-Rahman, Olinder, Radu

Iannone, Tournay, Bastida

De, Caitlin Stobie, Oliva

Pfalzgraf, Royo, Varadharajan



(History) KINGSTON ROOM

(English) SINGAPORE ROOM

(Geography)

Live Performance

20:30-21:30

ALECIA MCKENZIE AND DENISE KING

Jamericazz

Venue Chamber Room. City of Oviedo Auditorium

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Tuesday April 4

Parallel Sessions 3

9:30-11:00

Emotional Performances

Resisting the Urban 2

Emotional Scottish

Geographies

Cinematic Cityscapes

Fractured Indian Cities

Brito, Campbell-Hall,

Campobasso

Gautam, Perera,

Raimondi

Dodgson-Katiyo, Riaño,

Rodríguez Álvarez

Cristea, Hofer, Vetter

Tandon, González

Rodríguez, Mohanram



(History) KINGSTON

ROOM (English)

SINGAPORE ROOM

(Geography)


Plenary Session 2

11:30-12:30

ANANYA J. KABIR

Improvisation and the “Cramp of Time”: Jazz Dance, Capitalism, and Modernity

Location Humanities Library Lecture Hall

Literary Cities 1

12:30-

13:30

XIAOLU GUO

An Exile in London

TENDAI HUCHU

Between the Forest and the Desert: Showing Shit with Words and Other Such Things


Parallel Sessions 4

15:30-

17:00

Exploring Polycoloniality

Postcolonial and Queer

Desires

Healing and Well-

Being

Transcultura

l Urban Encounters

1

Black and Brown

Encounters

Al-Janabi, Koshy, Leon

Fernández Carbajal,

González Arias, Leetsch

Alexander, Barker,

Pérez Ruiz

Estévez Saá, Herrero, Thomson

Cowaloosur, Iglesias



(History)

KINGSTON ROOM

(English)

SINGAPORE ROOM

(Geography)


Literary Cities 2

17:00-18:00

SIMONE LAZAROO

Bodies of Water in Two Cities

ANITA BADAMI

Topic: TBA


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Live Performance

18:30-19:30

JOSEFINA BÁEZ

Lecturance "As Is E"


Live Performance

20:30-

21:30

INUA ELLAMS

An Evening with an Immigrant

Venue Chamber Room. City of Oviedo Auditorium

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Wednesday April 5

Parallel Sessions 5

9:30-

11:00

(Open) Cities and Historical

Erasures

Dysfunctional Urbanities

Writing

Peripheral and

Mediterran

ean Cities

Writing Australian

Cities

(Re)escribiendo ciudades 1

Az-Zuabidy, Herbillon, Misra

Collett, McLeod, Rodríguez-González

Nyman, Szoltysek, Sanches

Brayshaw, Schwegler Castañer,

Zach

Alfonso, Falcón, Fernández


(Classics)

LONDON ROOM

(History)

KINGSTON

ROOM (English)

SINGAPORE

ROOM (Geography)

MUMBAI ROOM

(Spanish)

Writing the Urban 1. Rountable with Authors

11:30-

12:30

INUA ELLANS, XIAOLU GUO, GILLIAN SLOVO, ANGIE CRUZ, JOSEFINA BÁEZ, ALECIA

MCKENZIE


12:30-13:30

Plenary Session 3

BELÉN MARTÍN LUCAS

Neoliberal Wars of Terror: A Decolonial Feminist Critique of the “War on Terror” Metanarrative


Literary Cities 3

16:00-17:00

VAHNI CAPILDEO

Cities by the Metre: Poems to Walk Around In ANGIE CRUZ

Dominicana. The Impossible Possible


Parallel Sessions 6

17:00-

18:30

Gendered Bodies and

Migrant

Encounters

Decolonization, Disgust and

Dissent

Urban Visual

Narratives

2

Postcolonial Shakespear

es

City Walkers

Gunne, Houlden, Rushton, Deckard

Davies, Igartuburu,

Ramírez Méndez

Pimentel Biscaia, Russell

García Ramírez, Mengíbar, Wanjala

Banerjee, Borras, Murray



(History)

KINGSTON ROOM

(English)

SINGAPORE ROOM

(Geography)


Durational Performance

15:30-

19:00

AMANDA COOGAN

Cowards

Location Departmental Building Main Hall

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Thursday April 6

Parallel Sessions 7

9:30-11:00

Afropolitans,

Pedestrians and African (American)

Flâneurs

Writing

South African Cities

Transcultural Urban

Encounters 2

Bodily Performances

(Re)escribiendo ciudades 2

Adeaga, García Corte, Haith

Gyuris, Hand, Wilson

Drawe and Mattheis,

Fresno Calleja, Toossi

Caballero, Nadaswaran,

Osorio Báquez, Montes


(Classics)

LONDON ROOM

(History)

KINGSTON ROOM (English)

SINGAPORE ROOM

(Geography)

SANTO DOMINGO ROOM (14D)

Literary Cities 4

11:30-

12:30

GILLIAN SLOVO

Cities in Chaos, Cities in Strifes

KEVIN IRELAND

Urban Spaces


Plenary Session 4. Anna Rutherford Lecture

12:30-

13:30

ARITHA VAN HERK

The Memory-Life of Cities: Seduction and Forgetting Location Humanities Library Lecture Hall

Parallel Sessions 8

15:30-

17:00

Writing London

Representing Mean Streets

Emotional

and Embodied

Encounters

Representing

Southern African

Urban Spaces

Urban (Post) Colonial

Cultures

Canadian Urban

Imaginaries

López Ropero, Pérez

Fernández, Pérez

Zapata

Fernández García, Pelayo Sañudo, Scafe

Arundhati and Zia, Beretta, Nnodim

López, Cheryl Stobie,

Vitackova

Diem, Michel, Parker

Bock, Schuchter,

Varela Zapata

Location

SYDNEY ROOM

(Classics)

LONDON ROOM

(History)

KINGSTON ROOM

(English)

SINGAPORE ROOM

(Geography)

SANTO DOMINGO

ROOM (14D)

CALGARY ROOM (24D)

17:00 EACLALS Business Meeting

Live Performance

20:30-

21:30

SILVIA ALBERT

No Country for Black Women Venue Pumarín Theater

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Friday April 7

Plenary Session 5

9:30-10:30

FRANCES NEGRÓN MUNTANER

King of the Line: The Sovereign Acts of Jean Michel Basquiat


Parallel Sessions 9

10:30-12:00

Capital Fictions

Urban Violence(s)

Performing

Black Urban Experiences

Challenging the Urban

Urban

Historical Rhythms

Kennedy, Borzaga,

Ramsey-Kurz

Escobar-Wiercinski, Wessels, Zander

Cruz Gutiérrez, Prieto López,

Holland

Callahan, Kusnir, De Loughry

Eguíbar Holgado, García Agustín, Pérez

García



(History) KINGSTON

ROOM (English)

SINGAPORE

ROOM (Geography)

HARARE ROOM (16D)

PLENARY SESSION 6

12:30-13:30

HELEN GILBERT

Performing in the Slipstream: Indigenous Denizens in European Urban Spaces


Writing the Urban 2. Rountable with Authors

13:30-14:30

VAHNI CAPILDEO, ARITHA VAN HERK, KEVIN IRELAND, SIMONE LAZAROO, ANITA

BADAMI, TENDAI HUCHU


14:30 Conference Closing

16th Triennial EACLALS Conference Performing the Urban. Embodiments, Inventories, Rhythms

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SUNDAY April 2, 2017 9:30-18:00 PRE-CONFERENCE TRIP Pick-up location: Hotel Campoamor. Calle de Argüelles, 23, 33003 Oviedo

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MONDAY April 3, 2017

10:00-13:00 Registration. (Faculty Room. Historical Building) 11:00-11:30 Conference Opening. (Paraninfo. Historical Building)

11:30-12:30 Plenary Session 1

IEN ANG. Western Sydney University, Australia.

Claiming Chinatown: Asian Australians, Public Art and the Making of Urban

Culture

Location: Paraninfo. Historical Building 12:30-13:30 Q&A with JAVIER BAULUZ. Photojournalist, Pulitzer Prize Winner

Location: Paraninfo. Historical Building

13:30 Wine Reception. (Cloister. Historical Building)

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Lunch Break

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15:30-19:00 Registration. (Entrance Hall. Departmental Building. Humanities Campus) 16:00-17:30 Parallel Sessions 1 1. URBAN AND RURAL LIMITS IN CRIME AND PRISON NARRATIVES

SUSAN BALLYN. University of Barcelona, Spain. Colonial to Postcolonial Penitentiary Architectural Migration? CORNELIS MARTIN RENES. University of Barcelona, Spain. Brisbane’s Boundary: Nicole Watson’s Aboriginal Claim on Urban Space. CATALINA RIBAS SEGURA. University College Alberta Giménez (UP Comillas), Spain. The Urban in Candice Fox’s Bennet-Archer Trilogy. Chair: PALOMA FRESNO CALLEJA. University of Balearic Islands, Spain. Location: SYDNEY ROOM (Classics)


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2. URBAN PERFORMANCES

SILVIA ANASTASIJEVIC. Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Transcultural Humor and the City: Cross-cultural Encounters in Urban Spaces. RALUCA MARIANA PINZARI. University of Oviedo, Spain. “Identity Jenga” at the Roundhouse Poetry Slam Finals. The Use of Irony and Witty Humour in Urban Performances. HAYLEY TOTH. University of Leeds, UK. Urban Embodiment in Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers.

Chair: PAOLA PRIETO LÓPEZ. University of Oviedo, Spain. Location: LONDON ROOM (History) 3. CARIBBEAN ALTER/URBAN SPACES MARTA FRĄTCZAK. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. Deconstructing the Myths of Urban Life in Orealla (1984) by Roy Heath. MARÍA GRAU PEREJOAN. University of Barcelona, Spain. The “Local” vs the “Universal” in the West Indian Literary Field. RUSSELL MCDOUGALL. University of New England, Australia. London, Madrid and Redonda: A Caribbean Kingdom in Exile. Chair: JESÚS VARELA ZAPATA. University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Location: KINGSTON ROOM (English)

4. URBAN VISUAL NARRATIVES 1

MÁXIMO ALÁEZ CORRAL. University of Oviedo, Spain. Text/Image/Performance: Narrating the Performed Urban Identity in Gillian Wearing’s Signs… Photographic Series. MARTA FERNÁNDEZ CAMPA. University of Reading, UK.

Representations of Space in Contemporary Caribbean Visual Art and Literature. LIZABETH PARAVISINI-GEBERT. Vassar College, USA. Cartagena de Indias: The Post Colonial City, Rising Sea Levels and the Urban Poor. Chair: LUZ MAR GONZÁLEZ ARIAS. University of Oviedo, Spain. Location: SINGAPORE ROOM (Geography)

5. WRITING INDIAN CITY SPACES 1

PATRICIA ÁLVAREZ SÁNCHEZ. Independent Scholar. Urban Landscapes in India: From Political Uncertainty in Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children to Globalization in Adiga’s The White Tiger.


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JOGAMAYA BAYER. Independent Scholar.

Writing the City: Mahasweta Devi’s “Mother of 1084” and Neel Mukherjee’s “The Lives of Others”. CRISTINA M. GÁMEZ FERNÁNDEZ. University of Córdoba, Spain. The Urban Slum and Human Power in Annawadi: Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers. Chair: E. GUILLERMO IGLESIAS DÍAZ. International University of La Rioja, Spain. Location: MUMBAI ROOM (Spanish)

18:00-19:30 Parallel Sessions 2 1. CANADIAN URBAN FICTION SHADIA ABDEL-RAHMAN TÉLLEZ. University of Oviedo, Spain. Embodying the Construction, Destruction and Reconstruction of the City: Literary Representations of Urban Architecture, Agoraphobia and Skateboarding. BRITTA OLINDER. Göteborg University, Germany. The Urban Drama of Québec City in Conflict. Janice Kulyk Keefer’s “Waste Zone”. ANCA-RALUCA RADU. University of Göttingen, Germany. Dionne Brand’s Love Enough (2014): Rewriting Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (1925). Chair: EVA PELAYO SAÑUDO. University of Oviedo, Spain. Location: SYDNEY ROOM (Classics)

2. POSTCOLONIAL EUROPEAN CITIES CATALINA IANNONE. University of Texas Austin, USA. Branding Lisbon: Inter-culturality and Visualities in Mouraria’s Mercado de Fusão. PETRA TOURNAY-THEODOTOU. European University Cyprus, Cyprus. Writing the City: Notes from Nicosia, the Last Divided Capital of the World. PATRICIA BASTIDA. University of Balearic Islands, Spain. Embodying the Invisible: African Women and European Cities in Chika Unigwe’s Fiction. Chair: ANNE COLLETT, University of Wollongong, Australia. Location: LONDON ROOM (History) 3. RESISTING THE URBAN: ECOURBANITIES 1

ASIS DE. Mahishadal Raj College, India. The Jail, Jungle and the Jarawas: Urbanity and Rhythmic Transformation of Island Life in Pankaj Sekhsaria’s The Last Wave (2014).


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CAITLIN STOBIE. University of Leeds, UK.

Posthumanist Performance and Situational Veganism in Zoë Wicomb’s October. JUAN IGNACIO OLIVA. University of La Laguna, Spain. Post-Pastoral Ecotones: (Lea-)Living the Canadian Material City. Chair: JOGAMAYA BAYER, Independent Scholar. Location: KINGSTON ROOM (English) 4. PERSPECTIVES ON DISPLACEMENT

MAGDALENA PFALZGRAF. Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. The Failed City as a Space of Transnational Movement and Transcultural Encounters: NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names. M. PILAR ROYO-GRASA. University of Zaragoza, Spain. Reading the Symbolic Routes of Gail Jones’s A Guide To Berlin (2015). ASHA VARADHARAJAN. Queen’s University, Canada.

“Gimme Shelter”: New Perspectives on Displacement and Habitation. Chair: PATRICIA BASTIDA. University of Balearic Islands, Spain. Location: SINGAPORE ROOM (Geography) 20:30-21:30 Live Performance

ALECIA MCKENZIE AND DENISE KING

Jamericazz

Venue: Chamber Room. Auditorio Palacio de Congresos Príncipe Felipe Plaza Gesta, s/n, 33007 Oviedo, Asturias.

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TUESDAY April 4, 2017

9:00-13:00 Registration (Entrance Hall. Departmental Building. Humanities Campus) 9:30-11:00 Parallel Sessions 3 1. EMOTIONAL PERFORMANCES CONCEPCIÓN BRITO VERA. University of La Laguna, Spain. Globalization as a Structure of Feeling: Aesthetics, the Political and the Self in Two Novels by Mohsin Hamid and Tash Aw. DEVON CAMPBELL-HALL. Southampton Solent University, UK. Emotional Performances of Urban Squalor in Vikas Swarup’s Q and A (2005) and Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire (2008). MARIA GIOVANNA CAMPOBASSO. Udine University, Italy. The Window as Frame: Urban Emotional Performance in Marjorie Barnard’s The Persimmon Tree.

Chair: IRENE PÉREZ FERNÁNDEZ. University of Oviedo, Spain. Location: SYDNEY ROOM (Classics) 2. RESISTING THE URBAN. ECO-URBANITIES 2 G. L. GAUTAM. Lajpat Rai College Sahibabad Ghaziabad, India. Eco-Urbanity in The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai. SENATH WALTER PERERA. University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. The Urban and the Counter-Urban in Post-War Sri Lanka: Rajith Savanadasa’s Ruins. LUCA RAIMONDI. Independent Scholar. “The Charm of Madras Towns”: R.K. Narayan’s Urban Imaginings. Chair: JUAN IGNACIO OLIVA. University of La Laguna, Spain. Location: LONDON ROOM (History)

3. EMOTIONAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHIES PAULINE DODGSON-KATIYO. Independent Scholar. “All the Loose Ends of Scotland”: Possessed by the City and the Past in Tendai Huchu’s The Maestro, The Magistrate and The Mathematician. CRISTINA RIAÑO ALONSO. University of Oviedo, Spain. Emotions and Embodied Urban Spaces in Leila Aboulela’s Short Fiction.


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ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ ÁLVAREZ. University of Oviedo, Spain.

Discussing Affective Spaces and Identity: Refugee and Local Perspectives on Glasgow In Karen Campbell’s This Is Where I Am. Chair: CARLA RODRÍGUEZ GONZÁLEZ. University of Oviedo, Spain. Location: KINGSTON ROOM (English) 4. CINEMATIC CITYSCAPES ANA MARÍA CRISTEA. University of Oviedo, Spain.

(De)constructing the gwo nèg outside of Haiti: Diasporic Masculinity in Jephte Bastien’s Sortie 67 (2010). ROBERTA HOFER. University of Innsbruck, Austria. Puppet Cities: Urban Marionette Stages in Contemporary Cinema. SABRINA VETTER. Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Journeys of Unbelonging: Community and City Life in Aboriginal Australian Road Movies.

Chair: ELISABETH RUSSELL. Rovira i Virgili University, Spain. Location: SINGAPORE ROOM (Geography) 5. FRACTURED INDIAN CITIES DEEPIKA TANDON. Delhi University, India. The Fractured City: Genocide in a National Capital, Delhi 1984.

MARÍA LUZ GONZÁLEZ-RODRÍGUEZ. University of La Laguna, Spain. In Search of “A Fine Balance” in the Global City: An Ecocritical Reading of Rohinton Mistry’s Novel. RADHIKA MOHANRAM. Cardiff University, UK. Textures of Indian Memories. Chair: MARÍA SOCORRO SUÁREZ LAFUENTE, University of Oviedo, Spain. Location: MUMBAI ROOM (Spanish)

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-12:30 Plenary Session 2

ANANYA J. KABIR. King’s College London, UK.

Improvisation and the “Cramp of Time”: Jazz Dance, Capitalism, and Modernity

Location: Humanities Library Lecture Hall


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12:30-13:30 Literary Cities 1

XIAOLU GUO

An Exile in London

TENDAI HUCHU

Between the Forest and the Desert: Showing Shit with Words and Other

Such Things

Location: Humanities Library Lecture Hall

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Lunch Break

*** 15:00-18:00 Registration (Entrance Hall. Departmental Building. Humanities Campus)

15:30-17:00 Parallel Sessions 4 1. EXPLORING POLYCOLONIALITY HAZAM KAMEL ABD AL-JANABI. University of Leicester, UK/University of Thi-Qar, Iraq. Borders of Conquest in Ahmed Sa'dawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013). MINU SUSAN KOSHY. National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India. Urban Rhythms of Polycoloniality: Rhythmanalyzing Kochi in Malayalam Cinema. CAROL ELIZABETH LEON. The University of Malaya, Malaysia. Narrating Malaysia: Rehman Rashid’s Peninsula: A Story of Malaysia. Chair: MARIA GIOVANNA CAMPOBASSO. Udine University, Italy. Location: SYDNEY ROOM (Classics)

2. POSTCOLONIAL QUEER AND DIASPORIC DESIRES AND AFFECTS ALBERTO FERNÁNDEZ CARBAJAL. University of Leicester, UK. Wandering the Urban Desert: Matrilinearity, Sufism, and L’errance in the Postcolonial Autofiction of Abdellah Taïa. LUZ MAR GONZÁLEZ ARIAS. University of Oviedo, Spain.

Urban and Small-Town Encounters across the Atlantic: Liminality and Nomadic Subjectivities in Emma Donoghue’s Landing.


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JENNIFER LEETSCH. Julius-Maximilians-Universität Wurzburg, Germany.

Dream Cities: Affective Spatiality in Zadie Smith's North London Writings. Chair: ANA MARÍA CRISTEA. University of Oviedo, Spain. Location: LONDON ROOM (History) 3. HEALING AND WELL-BEING IN THE CITY: SPACES AND INITIATIVES VERA ALEXANDER. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands. The Country in the City: Gardens as Stages of Resistance. CLARE BARKER, QULSOM FAZIL AND JOANNA SKELT. University of Leeds, UK. Global Alum Rock: Negotiating ‘Brand Pakistan’ within a Birmingham British Pakistani Muslim Community. BIBIAN PÉREZ RUIZ. Camilo José Cela University, Madrid and Autonomous University, Madrid, Spain. The Healing Quality of Nature in Big Cities: An Example in Madrid.

Chair: LAURA ZANDER. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany. Location: KINGSTON ROOM (English) 4. TRANSCULTURAL URBAN ENCOUNTERS 1 JOSÉ MANUEL ESTÉVEZ SAÁ. University of A Coruña, Spain. Transcultural Exchanges and Contact Zones in Tabish Khair’s How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position (2012) and just another jihadi jane (2016).

DOLORES HERRERO. University of Zaragoza, Spain. The Multicultural European City as Postcolonial Text in Tabish Khair’s How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position. VERONICA THOMPSON. Athabasca University, Canada. “Jihadists in the Woods”: Ausma Zehanat Khan’s The Language of Secrets and the Toronto 18. Chair: VERONIKA SCHUCHTER. Nottingham Trent University, UK.

Location: SINGAPORE ROOM (Geography) 5. BLACK AND BROWN ENCOUNTERS VEDITA COWALOOSUR. Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Black and Brown Encounters in Cosmopolitan Spaces. E. GUILLERMO IGLESIAS DÍAZ. International University of La Rioja, Spain.

Urbanscape: Representations of Space/Spaces of Representation in Jim Jarmusch’s Night on Earth. Chair: ELENA IGARTUBURU GARCÍA. University of Massachusetts Ahmerst, USA. Location: MUMBAI ROOM (Spanish)


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SIMONE LAZAROO

Bodies of Water in Two Cities

ANITA BADAMI

TOPIC: TBA

Location: Humanities Library Lecture Hall 18:00-18:30 Coffee Break 18:30-19:30 Live Performance

JOSEFINA BÁEZ

Lecturance “As Is E”

Venue: Humanities Library Lecture Hall

20:30-21:30 Live Performance

INUA ELLAMS

A Night with the Immigrants

Venue: Chamber Room. Auditorio Palacio de Congresos Príncipe Felipe Plaza Gesta, s/n, 33007 Oviedo, Asturias




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WEDNESDAY April 5, 2017 9:00-13:00 Registration (Entrance Hall. Departmental Building. Humanities Campus)

9:30-11:00 Parallel Sessions 5 1. (OPEN) CITIES AND HISTORICAL ERASURES THAMIR RASHID SHAYYAL AZ-ZUBAIDY. University of Leicester, UK and Wasit University/Iran. The City as an Excluding Space. MARIE HERBILLON. University of Liège, Belgium.

Dancing Against Oblivion: Performance as an Antidote to Spatial and Historical Erasure in J.M. Coetzee’s The Schooldays of Jesus. MAITRAYEE MISRA. Guru Ghasidas Viswavidyalaya, India. Open Cities, Closed Minds: Immigrants’ Experience of Race, Urbanity and “Nigerpolitan-ism” in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. Chair: MARIA SOFIA PIMENTEL BISCAIA. University of Vigo, Spain. Location: SYDNEY ROOM (Classics)

2. DYSFUNCTIONAL URBANITIES ANNE COLLETT. University of Wollongong, Australia. The Pestilential City: Claude McKay in Paris. JOHN MCLEOD. University of Leeds, UK. Northern Trespasser: Writing David Oluwale and the City of Leeds. CARLA RODRÍGUEZ GONZÁLEZ. University of Oviedo, Spain. Dysfunctional Urban Rhythms in Luke Sutherland’s Venus as a Boy. Chair: JANET WILSON. University of Northampton, UK. Location: LONDON ROOM (History) 3. WRITING PERIPHERAL AND MEDITERRANEAN CITIES

JOPI NYMAN. University of Eastern Finland, Finland. Valletta–London All Night Long: Mediterranean Mobilities in Vincent Vella’s Slippery Steps. JULIA SZOLTYSEK. University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. Orhan Pamuk's Delightful Obsessions: City, Novel, Museum. ZUZANNA IWONA ZAREBSKA SANCHES. University of Lisbon, Portugal. Women in the Peripheral Cities: The Case of Ireland and Portugal. Chair: VERA ALEXANDER. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands. Location: KINGSTON ROOM (English)


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4. WRITING AUSTRALIAN CITIES

MEG BRAYSHAW. Western Sydney University, Australia. The End of the City in M. Barnard Eldershaw’s Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. ASTRID SCHWEGLER CASTAÑER. University of Balearic Islands, Spain. “We’ve Boundless Plains to Share”: Multiethnic Parallel Spaces and the Multicultural Utopia and in Shaun Tan’s Surrealist Representations of the City. WOLFANG ZACH. University of Innsbruck, Austria. Aboriginal Australians and the City in Jack Davis’s Plays. Chair: CORNELIS MARTIN RENNES. University of Barcelona, Spain. Location: SYDNEY ROOM (Classics) 5. (RE)ESCRIBIENDO CIUDADES A AMBOS LADOS DEL ATLÁNTICO Mª DEL CARMEN ALFONSO GARCÍA. University of Oviedo, Spain.

Tras los pasos de una metáfora: Madrid, colmena literaria. AÍDA ELIZABETH FALCÓN MONTES. University of Oviedo, Spain. Cartografía de La Habana a Jovellanos en la obra de Georgina Herrera. RAQUEL FERNÁNDEZ MENÉNDEZ. University of Oviedo, Spain. La resistencia a la ciudad con el cuerpo en la poesía de Ángela Figuera Aymerich. Chair: ZUZEL LÓPEZ BAQUEZ. University of Oviedo, Spain

Location: MUMBAI ROOM (Spanish) 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-12:30 WRITING THE URBAN. Roundtable with Authors

INUA ELLANS, XIAOLU GUO, GILLIAN SLOVO, ANGIE CRUZ, JOSEFINA BÁEZ, ALECIA

MCKENZIE

Venue: Humanities Library Lecture Hall 12:30-13:30 Plenary Session 3

BELÉN MARTÍN LUCAS. University of Vigo, Spain.

Neoliberal Wars of Terror: A Decolonial Feminist Critique of the “War on Terror” Metanarrative



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14:00-15:30 Lunch Time Film Screening

She, A Chinese, by Xiaolu Guo. Q&A with director to follow.

Location: Lecture Hall. Administrative Building (Second Floor)

Light lunch and refreshments will be served

*** 15:00-18:00 Registration (Entrance Hall. Departmental Building. Humanities Campus) 16:00-17:30 Literary Cities 3

VAHNI CAPILDEO

Cities by the Metre: Poems to Walk Around In

ANGIE CRUZ

Dominicana. The Impossible Possible

Venue: Humanities Library Lecture Hall 17:00-18:30 Parallel Sessions 6 1. GENDERED BODIES AND MIGRANT URBAN ENCOUNTERS IN WORLD-LITERARY SPACES SORCHA GUNNE. National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. Urban Encounters and Gendered Experience in Irish “Chick Lit”. KATE HOULDEN. Anglia Ruskin University, UK.

Worlding Women’s Work: The Migrant Female Domestic Worker. AMY RUSHTON. Nottingham Trent University, UK. Mapping Inequalities in Urban Migration Novels: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo. SHARAE DECKARD. University College Dublin, Ireland. World-Ecology, Gender, and the Ecology of Waste: The Shantytowns of Latife Tekin’s Berji Kristin.

Chair: MELISSA KENNEDY. University of Viena, Austria. Location: SYDNEY ROOM (Classics)


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2. POSTCOLONIAL SHAKESPEARES

PAULA GARCÍA RAMÍREZ. University of Jaén, Spain. Wole Soyinka’s Plays: Between Shakespearean Tradition and Yoruba Opera. CONCEPCIÓN MENGÍBAR. Independent Scholar. Performing the Island in Caribbean Shakespeares. ALEX WANJALA. University of Nairobi, Kenia. Performing the Urban through Kenyan Hip-hop Music: King Kaka, the Swahili Shakespeare.

Chair: GLORIA CABALLERO. University of Oviedo, Spain. Location: LONDON ROOM (History) 3. DECOLONIZATION, DISGUST AND DISSENT IN GLOBALIZED URBAN SPACES DOMINIC DAVIES. University of Oxford, UK.

Urban Comix: Collaboration, Production and Resistance in the Global South. ELENA IGARTUBURU GARCÍA. University of Massachusetts Ahmerst, USA. Life Beyond the Human: Dirt and Disgust in Urban Gendered Rhythms and Waggling White Meat. ALEJANDRO RAMÍREZ MÉNDEZ. University of California, Los Angeles, USA. (Trans)cending Urbanity: Trans-Urban Narratives, Decolonial Landscapes and the Recognition of Cultural Identity in Alejandro Morales’ The Rag Doll Plagues.

Chair: ANDREA FERNÁNDEZ GARCÍA. University of Oviedo, Spain. Location: KINGSTON ROOM (English) 4. URBAN VISUAL NARRATIVES 2 MARIA SOFIA PIMENTEL BISCAIA. University of Vigo, Spain.

Posthuman Urbanities and Counter-Urbanities: Jane Alexander’s Postcolonial Affects. ELISABETH RUSSELL. Rovira i Virgili University, Spain. Street Art Projects: Ways of Seeing / Ways of Reading. Chair: MÁXIMO ALÁEZ CORRAL. University of Oviedo, Spain. Location: SINGAPORE ROOM (Geography)

5. CITY WALKERS SOHINI BANERJEE. University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. Writing the Postcolonial City: Walking as Urban Practice in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief.


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MARIE FRANCHESCA M. BORRAS. Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. City Poetess: The Emergence of the Flâneuse in Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit and in Dear City by Conchitina Cruz. SALLY ANN MURRAY. Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Wayward Narrations: Re-storying Durban’s Citiness via Jahangeer’s Urban “City Walks” and the Life Stories Chapbook Along the Way. Chair: SANDRA GARCÍA CORTE, University of Oviedo, Spain.

Location: MUMBAI ROOM (Spanish) 15:00-18:30 Durational Performance

AMANDA COOGAN

Cowards Location: Entrance Hall. Departmental Building. Humanities Campus

*** 21:30 Conference Gala Dinner

HOTEL DE LA RECONQUISTA

Calle Gil de Jaz, 16, 33004 Oviedo, Asturias.

https://goo.gl/maps/2Y3MG5pj1A82

https://goo.gl/maps/2Y3MG5pj1A82


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THURSDAY April 6th, 2017

9:00-13:00 Registration (Entrance Hall. Departmental Building. Humanities Campus)

9:30-11:00 Parallel Sessions 7 1. AFROPOLITANS, PEDESTRIANS AND AFRICAN (AMERICAN) FLÂNEURS TOMI ADEAGA. University of Vienna, Austria. Challenges of Cosmopolitanism in Teju Cole’s Open City (2007) and Every Day is for the Thief (2011). SANDRA GARCÍA CORTE. University of Oviedo, Spain.

Pedestrianism: Performing the Urban in Contemporary Afropolitan Narratives. CHELSEA HAITH. University of Cape Town, South Africa. History, Memory and Walking through Time in Teju Cole’s Open City. Chair: SOHINI BANERJEE. University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. Location: SYDNEY ROOM (Classics)

2. WRITING SOUTH AFRICAN CITIES KATA GYURIS. Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. Becoming Hillbrow: Urban Landscapes and Performance in Contemporary South African Fiction. FELICITY HAND. Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. Writing Indian Durban: from Grey Street to Dr. Yusuf Dadoo Street. JANET WILSON. University of Northampton, UK. Embodied Encounters: The City and an Alternative World of Possibility in J.M. Coetzee’s Slow Man (2007). Chair: GEOFFREY V. DAVIES. University of Aachen, Germany. Location: LONDON ROOM (History)

3. TRANSCULTURAL URBAN ENCOUNTERS 2

CLAUDIA DRAWE and LENA MATTHEIS. University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Bindura Sun over Holyroodhouse. PALOMA FRESNO CALLEJA. University of Balearic Islands, Spain. Dairy F(r)ictions: Performing Interethnic Encounters in the New Zealand Corner Shop.


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KATAYOUN ZAREI TOOSSI, University of Birjand, Iran and REZA ETEMADI NIA, Vali Asr

University of Rafsanjan, Iran. Muhsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and the Limits of Empathy in Transcultural Urban Encounters. Chair: SENATH WALTER PERERA. University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Location: KINGSTON ROOM (English) 4. BODILY PERFORMANCES

GLORIA CABALLERO. University of Oviedo, Spain. Performing and Embodying the Urban in Old Havana. SHALINI NADASWARAN. University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Writing Sefi Atta’s Female Characters in the City of Lagos. PILAR OSORIO. University of Massachusetts Ahmerst, USA. Consciousness Awareness in Abeng by Michelle Cliff.

Chair: RUSSELL MCDOUGALL. University of New England, Australia. Location: SINGAPORE ROOM (Geography) 5. REESCRIBIENDO CIUDADES 2 ZUZEL LÓPEZ BAQUEZ. University of Oviedo, Spain. Isel Rivero o el avistamiento de una errante “de paso”.

VICENTE ENRIQUE MONTES NOGALES. University of Oviedo, Spain. De la aldea a la ciudad: la transformación de las funciones de los narradores oesteafricanos. Chair: Mª DEL CARMEN ALFONSO GARCÍA. University of Oviedo, Spain. Location: SANTO DOMINGO ROOM (14D)


GILLIAN SLOVO

Cities in Chaos, Cities in Strifes

KEVIN IRELAND

Urban Spaces



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12:00-12:30 Coffee Break 12:30-13:30 Plenary Session 4

ANNA RUTHERFORD LECTURE

ARITHA VAN HERK

The Memory-Life of Cities: Seduction and Forgetting


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Lunch Break

*** 15:00-17:00 Registration (Entrance Hall. Departmental Building. Humanities Campus)

15:30-17:00 Parallel Sessions 8 1. WRITING LONDON LOURDES LÓPEZ ROPERO. University of Alicante, Spain. Sounding the Memorial Urban Landscape: Monuments and Contramonumental Discourse in Recent Writing in English. IRENE PÉREZ FERNÁNDEZ. University of Oviedo, Spain. Reimagining the Transnational Metropolis: Towards a New Literary Cartography of that “Unfamiliar Place” Called London. BEATRIZ PÉREZ ZAPATA. University of Zaragoza, Spain. Freedom in the City? Walking and the Reclaiming of Space and Identity in Zadie Smith’s NW.

Chair: ALBERTO FERNÁNDEZ CARBAJAL. University of Leicester, UK. Location: SYDNEY ROOM (Classics) 2. REPRESENTING MEAN STREETS

ANDREA FERNÁNDEZ GARCÍA. University of Oviedo, Spain. Violence, Pain and Anger in Yxta Maya Murray’s Locas (1997): An Emotional Reading of Female Gangbanging. EVA PELAYO SAÑUDO. University of Oviedo, Spain. Performing Italian American (In)famous Ties/Sites: Mean Streets, “Intimate Wars” and Surrogate Families in Louisa Ermelino’s Spring Street Trilogy.


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SUZANNE SCAFE. London South Bank University, UK. Gender Violence and the Embodied Urban Encounter: The Short Fiction of Marlon James and Kei Miller. Chair: ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ ÁLVAREZ. University of Oviedo, Spain. Location: LONDON ROOM (History) 3. EMOTIONAL AND EMBODIED ENCOUNTERS IN INDIAN CITIES

ARUNDHATHI. Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India, and SARAH ZIA, Independent Scholar.

City in Love or Love in the City? CARLOTTA BERETTA. University of Bologna, Italy. Calcutta’s Sensuous Geography in Three Novels by Amit Chaudhuri: A Strange and Sublime Address, Freedom Song, and A New World. RITA NNODIM. Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, USA.

Streetchildren, Pavement Dwellers, and Bombay’s Urban Poor – Literary Imaginings of (Dis)Placements, (Dis)Embodiments, and the “Right to Stay Put”. Chair: FELICITY HAND. Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. Location: KINGSTON ROOM (English) 4. REPRESENTING SOUTHERN AFRICAN URBAN SPACES

MARÍA JESÚS LÓPEZ. University of Córdoba, Spain. Cape Town in Zoë Wicomb’s Fiction: Urban Affiliation and Homely Secrets. CHERYL STOBIE. University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Charms, Blessings and Compromises in Sweet Medicine: Black Women’s Bodies and Decolonisation in Southern Africa. MARTINA VITACKOVA. University of Pretoria, South Africa.

“It all Happens in Cape Town”. Cape Town as the Urban Landscape of Contemporary African Romantic Fiction. Chair: ALEX WANJALA. University of Nairobi, Kenia. Location: SINGAPORE ROOM (Geography) 5. URBAN (POST)COLONIAL CULTURES: LIFE-WRITING, ETHNOGRAPHY AND EX-CENTRICITY

CHRISTOF DIEM. University of Innsbruck, Austria. Performing Ex-Centricity in the City Palace: Urbanity and Migration in Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion.


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ALICE MICHEL. University of Orléans, France.

Writing the Emergence of Urban Culture in Colonial Melbourne: Mary Fortune’s “Down Bourke Street” (1869). EMMA PARKER. University of Leeds, UK. Doris Lessing’s London: Postcolonial Life-Writing in the City. Chair: ALEJANDRA MORENO ÁLVAREZ. University of Oviedo, Spain. Location: SANTO DOMINGO ROOM (14D)

6. CANADIAN URBAN IMAGINARIES GERALDINE BOCK MCMURRAY. University of Oviedo, Spain. Women’s Embodying the City in Alice Munro’s Short Stories. VERONIKA SCHUCHTER. Nottingham Trent University, UK. Aritha van Herk’s Imaginary City of Calgary. JESÚS VARELA ZAPATA. University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Escaping the Garrison: The Constraints of Small Urban Settlements in Canadian Writing. Chair: MIASOL EGUÍBAR HOLGADO. University of Oviedo, Spain. Location: CALGARY ROOM (24D)

17:00-18:30 EACLALS Business Meeting

Location: Humanities Library Lecture Hall 18:30-19:30 WALKING CITY TOUR. Exploring Oviedo’s Colonial History Gathering location: Humanities Library

20:30-21:30 Live Performance

SILVIA ALBERT

No Country for Black Women*

Venue: Teatro Pumarín. Calle Emilio Alarcos Llorach, 5, 33001 Oviedo, Asturias.

https://goo.gl/maps/wrWzygx7v2n *(Performed in Spanish with English Subtitles)

https://goo.gl/maps/wrWzygx7v2n


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FRIDAY April 7th, 2017


FRANCES NEGRÓN MUNTANER. Columbia University

King of the Line: The Sovereign Acts of Jean Michel Basquiat

Venue: Humanities Library Lecture Hall 10:30-12:00 Parallel Sessions 9 1. CAPITAL FICTIONS

MELISSA KENNEDY. University of Viena, Austria. Spatial Performance of Inequality. MICHELA BORZAGA. University of Vienna, Austria. A World of Camps: New Precarious Urban Lives. HELGA RAMSEY-KURZ. University of Innsbruck, Austria. Unhomeliness Behind Grand Façades.

Chair: PETRA TOURNAY-THEODOTOU. European University Cyprus, Cyprus. Location: SYDNEY ROOM (Classics) 2. URBAN VIOLENCE(S) SARA ESCOBAR-WIERCINSKI. Wayne State University, USA. Enactment of Women in Urban Spaces of Subjectivities and Violence.

MICHAEL WESSELS. University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Violence in Selected Indian and South African Novels: Representations of Urban and Rural Spaces of Injustice and Resistance. LAURA ZANDER. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany. Postapartheid Johannesburg. Urban Ambiguity in South African Literature. Chair: SUZANNE SCAFE. London South Bank University, UK. Location: LONDON ROOM (History)

3. PERFORMING BLACK URBAN EXPERIENCES CRISTINA CRUZ GUTIÉRREZ. University of Balearic Islands, Spain. Embodying and Performing Black Urban Femininity: The Politics of Michelle Obama’s Hair. PAOLA PRIETO LÓPEZ. University of Oviedo, Spain.

Writing from the Fringe: Black British Experience in Urban Drama.


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SAMANTHA REIVE HOLLAND. Independent Scholar.

“It’s about Details. The Full Picture”: Diana Evans’ The Wonder (2009). Chair: RALUCA MARIANA PINZARI. University of Oviedo, Spain. Location: KINGSTON ROOM (English) 4. CHALLENGING THE URBAN DAVID CALLAHAN. University of Aveiro, Portugal. The Earthly City and the City of No Place: Canada’s Mass Effect. JAROSLAV KUŠNÍR. University of Presov, Slovakia. The City as Post/Colonial and Alter/Native Space in Omar Musa’s Here Come the Dogs (2014). TREASA DE LOUGHRY. University College Dublin, Ireland. Representing the City: Capitalism-in-Crisis and Fixed Capital. Chair: CHERYL STOBIE. University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Location: SINGAPORE ROOM (Geography) 5. URBAN HISTORICAL RHYTHMS IN CANADIAN CITIES MIASOL EGUÍBAR HOLGADO. University of Oviedo, Spain. Reading Space and Body Racialisation in the Post-Africville Renaissance. EDUARDO GARCÍA AGUSTÍN. Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.

Globalized Urban Labyrinths and Mutilated Bodies in David Cronenberg’s Consumed. FERNANDO PÉREZ GARCÍA. University of Oviedo, Spain. Flickering Bodies: Psychogeography and Paracosmic Vancouver in Wayde Compton’s The Outer Harbour. Chair: ANCA-RALUCA RADU. University of Göttingen, Germany. Location: HARARE ROOM (16D)

12:00-13:30 Coffee Break


HELEN GILBERT. Royal Holloway University

Performing in the Slipstream: Indigenous Denizens in European Urban Spaces



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13:30-14:30 WRITING LITERARY CITIES. Final Roundtable with Authors and Conference Closing


*** 21:00 FAREWELL DANCE PARTY. Join us at PER SE Café for an end-of-conference drink. PER SE Café. Calle Canóniga, 18, Oviedo.

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SATURDAY April 8th 9:30-18:00 POST-CONFERENCE TRIP. Indianos Route Pick-up location: Hotel Campoamor. Calle de Argüelles, 23, 33003 Oviedo


More info at: http://www.eaclals-oviedo17.com/en/social-programme.php

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